Russell Brand has been a very hot topic for the last week. Brand has been on a mainstream media campaign for a while now, at least since this past summer.

My purpose here is to not dispute any of the statements that Brand makes. He is pitch perfect and dead on with his assessments. Brand voices what many of us who have been paying attention have been saying for years. For that I am grateful. However, many other 'celebrities' have said virtually the same things and been publicly tarred and feathered for it. Yet, Russell Brand has been on all of the mainstream corporate media's talk shows with all of the international recognized hosts and his celebrity only grows. Why?

It is entirely possible that Brand has caught a wave of thought whose time has come and he has tapped into the sub-conscious of the masses and glibly voices that. What we do know is that Russell Brand sells, and the corporate media will present the public with anything that sells...more cars, credit and soap etc. I ask you...what happens when Brand's message becomes passe' to an attention span shortened public? When his compelling persona and message becomes old hat? When Brand doesn't draw the attention he once did?I submit that is when the controllers of corporate media set about to discredit Brand and what he says. The Russell Brand phenomena may be a prodigious game of ruling elite psychological ju-jitsu on the masses. Or, they could be waiting for Brand to make an unfortunate error in his personal life or in his media statements, they will seize on that like ravenous jackals; and Brand, the truth he speaks and the hopes of meaningful change that people pinned on him will be sunk.

The aforementioned possibilities bring me to my main point. Let us not seize onto people or personalities for hope. How did that work out with Obama? Let us inhabit the idea, not the person. I find that most people who resist what Brand is saying tend to use the words -globalist-, 'socialist and -statist. Those are not the principles that I question Brand about...I do believe in one world, one would call the bedrock of my philosophy 'socialist' and frankly 'statist' simply sounds like a made up hot button word used to manipulate. Is 'statistism' worse than 'corporatism'? From where I sit I see that it is the corporate lobby that runs the state. No, I wonder why all the sudden Russell Brand is allowed to be on a slash and burn campaign critical against the establishment? Like I said earlier, it may be because Brand's thoughts and ideas may be something whose time has come, we are living in a time of paradigm shift. However, this conscious paradigm shift is not personality driven by cleaving onto to hero-saviors. While I'm enthusiastic about what Brand elucidates, I am troubled by the fawning over him to the detriment of the conscious shift he speaks of. Let us inhabit the shift, not the man.

All movements for broad change in society must be wary of managed opposition. People put into the public eye that say all the right things, but whose purpose is to diffuse the energy of true change. The notable examples are the FBI's Co-intelpro program which derailed the anti-war and black consciousness movement in the 60s and 70s. No, I am not labeling Brand an agent, he's an actor and comedian. He thrives on attention and his persona is for sale. As my friend Karl says, those that are allowed to tell the truth in public (the corporate media) are children and comedians. Children and comedians give the ruling elite 'plausible deniability'. If Brand is being used to diffuse the energy of true change, he may not even be aware of it. Brand may simply be happy that he's ignited a firestorm of attention for himself and his career. It is up to us to be observant and independent thinkers. To applaud the message but dismiss the messenger. What we stand for is bigger than Russell Brand or any individual. I felt this needed to be put into the atmosphere.

To the question u ask about why he is everywhere in the media getting to spread his message..? I Think because no one that have gone against him live have ever gotten him to fail and say something wrong or won a debate against him.. and they desperately waiting for him to say something wrong or against himself to crucify him as satans spawn and let us believe that we all got missled and was stupid enough to even think of another and better reality for all 99+1% ! ;)

I resonate with what you say about people being messengers not message. For a message to last it must be bigger than the person. And some messages have been equally used to further the opposite ends; labels for instance are often used to categorize and dismiss when once they were rallying points. I think of the number of ways we have found to keep people down with some new theory about what contributes to their "place" - brain science being the newest - when it first these ideas seem compassionate. If it helps the revolution to get some air time great. If when he goes down the revolution disappears was it really a revolution?

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Peg

10/31/2013 02:00:06 am

thanks D. always good to consider how 'some' things go viral and others don't - follow the money. scary that it all boils down to who can you trust and the answer is so illusive and mostly impossible

Oh dear! I think I may have, for a moment there, been too inspired by the man as well as his message. The message is familiar to me and the injustices of our world all too evident. But there are other messages, equally familiar to me, concerning false teachers and I am grateful for your words of caution in this regard. I will doubtless continue to listen and observe Mr. Brand, but I would like to hear an explanation for the much talked about "33" tattoo. The video link referred to in this blog seems long since broken. Peace be with you.

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anon

4/18/2015 06:57:06 am

He explained it Steve. Theres nothing to worry about.

"That's when Jesus died and I like a bit've Jesus."

So as a mark of respect to Him he displays 33 hanging from a dog's neck. (see dogtags of Trews logo).

He has no respect for religion either (I am atheist btw) indicated by the necklace he wears on his logo :- Pendants of religious symbols alongside McDonalds logo.

There really is a quagmire of false prophets and controlled opposition out there. Best to take all of them with a pinch of salt. Give it consideration rather than jumping on the ride.

Peace bruv

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